February 16, 2007 / Front Page

A 77-year-old woman whose body was found badly burned inside her Bayswater home last week actually died from stab wounds to her neck and other head injuries, according to the Chief Medical Examiner's office. More...

The two elected officials who represent Rockaway in the State Assembly come with puppet's strings attached, and those strings are not controlled by the electorate, but by Sheldon Silver and Joseph Bruno, party leaders who control with an iron More...

Just as there is no doubt that Medicare is a boon for our senior citizens, there is also no doubt that the program is flawed in a number of ways, among them the major problems caused by the fact that the program cannot negotiate with pharmaceu More...

Douglas L Artis, a longtime Rockaway resident, died February 1. He was 63. Artis, a United States Postal Service mail handler for 37 years who worked in Manhattan, was born on October 14, 1943 in Islewhite, Virginia. More...

With air temperatures hovering in the upper 20s and water temperatures in the upper 30s, a few hundred plungers took a freezing dip in the Atlantic Ocean at Beach 126 Street last Saturday as part of a fundraiser to fight Cystic Fibrosis. More...

Councilmember James Sanders Jr. will sponsor the "4th Annual Salute to Gospel" at City Hall on Wednesday, February 21, with a reception and awards ceremony starting at 5 p.m. and the gospel event kicking off at 6 p.m. More...

The news last week was that Queens Republican Chairman State Senator Serphin Maltese resigned in a late night session of the Queens GOP Executive Committee and that longtime party stalwart, Phil Ragusa, was appointed to take his place. More...

The first snowstorm of the year played havoc with PSAL schedulemakers as the citywide girls' high school basketball playoffs, about to commence on Wednesday with first round action, was erased. More...

The Girls Diocesan Quarterfinals were played this past weekend and St. Francis has advanced two of its teams into the Final Four. Team speed and an excellent collaborative effort swept the Novices past Our Lady of Snows 19-13. More...

The St Camillus Bantam Boys Basketball team defeated Our Lady of Grace 30-20 this past Saturday at home to end their regular season. The scoring was led by Anthony Laporta Jr., who had 11 points and Sean O'Connell with 9. More...